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"Passing Like Cherry Blossoms:" Silence in Chinese-American Literature (thesis)
This thesis was born out of the desire to see myself, a Chinese-American person, represented in contemporary American fiction. In the publishing industry today, books written by and about people of minority racial or ethnic ... -
The Original Sin: English Discourses of Race and Plantation in Ireland, 1590-1625 (thesis)
Ireland experienced numerous forms of land redistribution throughout its history due to intermittent invasions. Viking and Norman groups each conquered sections of the island from the 800s to 1200s CE, and the Tudor monarchs ... -
An Examination of the History and Music of Select Classical Saxophone Works and Jazz Standards (thesis)
Altogether, an examination of the selected recital repertoire presents greater historical context of the performed works and their composers in addition to providing a musical analysis of the pieces themselves. The classical ... -
Assessing the Impact of Soil on Manganese Contamination in Springs and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (thesis)
A substantial fraction of the Shenandoah Valley, VA population relies on ground and spring water for domestic use. Manganese (Mn) is of particular concern in groundwater, as low-level chronic exposure to aqueous Mn ... -
Analyzing the Relationships Between Aqueous Manganese and Geological Factors in Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley (thesis)
Manganese (Mn) can be either harmful or beneficial to human health, depending on the phase and concentration that the element is found in. In recent years research has indicated that low level chronic exposure to aqueous ... -
Moritura: Gendered Readings of Women's Suicides in Latin Poetry Through The Methodology of Living Death (thesis)
This thesis will examine the ideal reader's perception of four women who die by suicide in Latin poetry from two different eras: The Golden Age and the Silver Age and it will propose a analytical framework for examining ... -
The Role of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Decision-Making: A Case Study of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mining Project
Demand for lithium is growing rapidly as a result of increasing production of electric vehicles and the lithium-ion batteries that power these vehicles. In the interest of securing a domestic supply of lithium the United ... -
How Does S-1 Filing Language Affect IPO Failure? (thesis)
This paper considers how the language used in the filings associated with an initial public offering (IPO) might predict the ultimate failure of an IPO. In part one of the study, I used qualitative methods to examine the ... -
Mnesthe Across the Mediterranean (thesis)
Dura has preserved-and archaeology has unearthed-the largest concentration of mnesthe graffiti, a simple yet distinctive type of inscription found throughout the ancient Mediterranean. . . . Since more than 45% of the ... -
Rockbridge Health COVID-19 Screening Protocol Improvement Project
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic drove the need to develop and implement new procedures to prevent the spread of the disease. The current project addresses the unreliability of Rockbridge Health's initial COVID-19 ... -
Protestants and the Poor: How Religiosity Affects Support for Social Welfare Policy
This article first examines the question: Does degree of religiosity affect support for social welfare policy among Protestants and Catholics, and does this effect change over time? I first review various theoretical ... -
A Survival Analysis on the Waiting Lists for Kidney Transplants in the United States: Who Waits the Most? (thesis)
The National Organ Transplantation Act, passed in 1984, continues to be utilized in an effort to address the disparity between the quantity supplied and demanded of kidneys. The National Organ Transplantation Act declared ... -
On the Realizability of Projective Configurations (thesis)
Many natural questions emerge from the work of this thesis. The first chapter may inspire a budding mathematician to work (in the fashion of my thesis advisor) on area relations and equidissections. From the second chapter, ... -
Linear Algebraic Methods in Data Science and Neural Networks (thesis)
This thesis is about some of the methods and concepts of linear algebra that are particularly helpful for data analysis. After a brief review of some linear algebra concepts in chapter 1, the second chapter of the thesis ... -
How do "Victims" Become "Criminals?" Examining the Power of Language in Criminalizing Homelessness (thesis)
In this paper, I begin by outlining various definitions of poverty and homelessness and my reasons for using Amartya Sen's capability-based approach. Then, I transition into my theoretical framework and discuss how deviance ... -
The Hermeneutics of Secession in the Valley of Virginia (thesis)
This thesis examines the hermeneutics of a distinct region in Virginia during the secession crisis which preceded the Civil War. The Introduction establishes the unique histories, cultures, economics, politics, and religions ... -
Reading Like a Mother: A New Approach to the Griselda Tale (thesis)
I have traced the evolution of the Griselda tale throughout four texts and two images, arguing throughout that motherhood lies at its center, no matter how desperate her translators are to sideline it. . . . In the ... -
Are Board Gender Quotas Effective in the United States? Evidence from the California Senate Bill 826 (thesis)
This paper uses difference in difference and triple difference models to assess the relationship between gender quota mandates and firm performance. I use data from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which provides ... -
Incommensurability Reassessed: The Cognitive Science Foundations of World-View (In)comparability (thesis)
Thomas S. Kuhn's contributions to the philosophy of science are among the most prominent and contentious of the 20th century; his Structure of Scientific Revolutions remains one of the most cited philosophical works in ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ...